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NSU Hosts 25th Annual Northern South Dakota Science and Mathematics Fair
Released March 17, 2008
(ABERDEEN, SD) The 25th Annual Northern South Dakota Science and Mathematics Fair will be held Thu, Mar. 27, in the Barnett Center at Northern State University. An estimated 500 –600 junior and senior high school students from Brown, Campbell, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Hyde, Marshall, McPherson, Roberts, Spink, and Walworth Counties will display their science projects.
Projects will be judged in the morning and will be open for public viewing from 1-7 p.m. The science fair awards ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. in the Johnson Fine Arts Theater, and is free and open to the public.
The top two individuals and top team consisting of two students will receive an all-expense paid trip to Atlanta, Ga. to attend the International Science and Engineering Fair being held May 11-16. The students will compete there for several large cash awards and other prizes such as free college tuition.
Junior and senior high science bowls, held in conjunction with the fair, will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Johnson Fine Arts Center. The public is invited to attend.
The science fair is under the direction of Dr. Jodie Ramsay, associate professor of biology, and Linda Richards- secretary of the math and science department at NSU.
Chairing the junior science bowl will be NSU Science Club under the direction of Dave Pierson, NSU Master Teacher of chemistry and physics at the E-Learning Center. Co-presidents of the science club are Carl Fellbaum and Eric Viall.
The NSU Honors Society will be responsible for organizing the senior science bowl. Their advisor is Dr. Ken Blanchard, NSU professor of political science. Nicole Landmark is currently president of the Honors Society.
Approximately 70 NSU faculty and staff members, upper-level students,
and professionals from the Aberdeen Community will judge projects
at the fair.
About Northern State University
Northern State University is a premier residential institution characterized by outstanding instruction, extraordinary community relations, and unparalleled extracurricular opportunities. In August of 2007 NSU was named by US News and World Report as one of the best undergraduate public institutions in the Midwest. For more information about NSU, visit our Web site at www.northern.edu.
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